Create partnerships with Atmospheric Sciences programs that have students from historically under-represented populations through the exchange of NCAR Scientists, faculty and studentsfrom identified programs.

11/1/12-

10/31/14

$39,999

EOL Technical Internship Program - Phase II

Mike Daniels, Wen-Chau Lee, Alison Rockwell, and Sara Metz, EOL

Offers four summer internships to technical and science support-focused students from 2-year and vocational/technical institutions in the Boulder/Denver area to increase diversity in these fields.

10/1/12-

9/30/14

$27,317

Teaching at University of Texas, El Paso, an HSI

Chris Davis/ASP

The primary goal of this project is to enhance opportunities for the participation of minority students from the University of Texas El Paso in atmospheric research. UTEP is a minority serving institution with 75% minority student representation.

This workshop with experts on cross-cultural scientificengagement with Native American communities to address the question: What are the elements ofsuccessful co-production of science and policy in the related fields of extreme weather and climatechange?

10/1/12 - 9/30/14

$39,975

Creating a diversity education and engagement laboratory for the computational geosciences

Rich Loft/CISL

Leverage the new CISL Diversity Coordinator's skills in education research, diversity, and outreach and networking efforts in FY13 to create within CISL a Diversity Education and Engagement Laboratory in the computational geosciences.

Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) conference for middle school girls held at the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder. This proposal seeks suppOl1 from the NCAR Diversity fund to cover part of the cost of registration fee waivers and the room rental fees of the engineering center at CU Boulder.

EOL, in collaboratorion with CLACE, will support the NCAR Careers project which is designed to engage the interest of Latino and other K-12 students in learning about atmospheric research and related careers.

A Pilot SiParCS Externship Project for Building Diversity-Oriented Partnerships with Target Institutions

Rich Loft/CISL

Create a two-year pilot externship program in computational geoscience that will complement and enhance CISL's successful SIParCA internships program.

6/1/14-5/30/16

$39,922

FY13 Diversity Subcommittee Award

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NCAR presence at the 2013 SACNAS Annual National Conference

Rich Loft/CISL

This proposal aims to raise awareness about NCAR’s science among students from traditionally underrepresented populations in STEM by attending, recruiting and presenting at the 2013 Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Annual National Conference, and to use the presence at SACNAS to recruit students into NCAR’s undergraduate research experiences.

Vast and largely untapped reservoirs of talent and productivity reside in people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A large percentage of people in the autism spectrum have strong interests in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.